Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > I had FreeBSD 2.2-stable installed on an old notebook with > > 4 MB RAM (actually less, because ~ 0.5 MB was lost VGA > > mappings and registers etc.). It was very usable for > > simple things like text editing and as a terminal. > > High en

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Oliver Fromme wrote: > I had FreeBSD 2.2-stable installed on an old notebook with > 4 MB RAM (actually less, because ~ 0.5 MB was lost VGA > mappings and registers etc.). It was very usable for > simple things like text editing and as a terminal. High end Xeons and Itaniums have 18MB - 24MB of i

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Julian Elischer wrote: > Markus Boelter wrote: > > > > > Apart from wondering how you're getting the motherboard to get past > > > POST without RAM, I'm wondering how you'd get the bootloader and > > > > > [...] > > > > The guys at Linux/OpenBIOS did some Cache-as-RAM stuff. Maybe you ca

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Watt
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rudy wrote: > > A chip level loading of the core kernel would be the only way. > > So its not possible todo without a completly new hardware > infrastructre design. > > - I'm wanting todo this because computers are too slow. You need to learn a little more about

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-08 Thread Rudy Rockstar
r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "Rudy Rockstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:53:18 +0100 >Hi! > >

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Markus Boelter wrote: Hi! Apart from wondering how you're getting the motherboard to get past POST without RAM, I'm wondering how you'd get the bootloader and [...] The guys at Linux/OpenBIOS did some Cache-as-RAM stuff. Maybe you can also put (burn) the kernel directly into the BIOS chip

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-08 Thread Markus Boelter
Hi! Apart from wondering how you're getting the motherboard to get past POST without RAM, I'm wondering how you'd get the bootloader and [...] The guys at Linux/OpenBIOS did some Cache-as-RAM stuff. Maybe you can also put (burn) the kernel directly into the BIOS chip and bott with that k

Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario

2007-03-08 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2007/3/8, Rudy Rockstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If I had say a 15k rpm drive, would it be possible to configure the FreeBSD kernel to not use system memory and ONLY the hard drive for caching instructions and executing operations? No, probably not. Also, a 15K RPM drive still isn't very